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Members of the Gilmer Community Food Pantry Sack Pack team, led by volunteer Lu Hale, facing, work to bag weekend food for more than 300 local children.

Members of the Gilmer Community Food Pantry Sack Pack team, led by volunteer Lu Hale, facing, work to bag weekend food for more than 300 local children.

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State-level changes could strike funding for local kid’s food program

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Pending changes to a state nutrition assistance program could result in loss of funding for a local program, as well as several similar ones in Georgia that provide food to local schoolchildren.
Capt. Brian Crump, of the Gilmer County Sheriff’s Office, gets a flu shot from Leigh Ann Dover, of the Gilmer Health Department, during last year’s drive-thru clinic at the ETC Pavilion.

Capt. Brian Crump, of the Gilmer County Sheriff’s Office, gets a flu shot from Leigh Ann Dover, of the Gilmer Health Department, during last year’s drive-thru clinic at the ETC Pavilion.

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Drive-thru flu shot clinic set for Oct. 4

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
With flu season right around the corner, local residents will again have the opportunity to quickly and conveniently arm themselves by rolling up their sleeves at an upcoming drive-thru clinic held by the Gilmer County Health Department. The drive-thru flu shot clinic will take place 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Plans are underway to make the building at 127 Dalton Street, which neighbors the George Link Jr. Gilmer Arts Playhouse, the new location of the Gilmer Arts Gallery. A United Latin American Pentecostal Church currently in the building is looking for a new place to which it can relocate.

Plans are underway to make the building at 127 Dalton Street, which neighbors the George Link Jr. Gilmer Arts Playhouse, the new location of the Gilmer Arts Gallery. A United Latin American Pentecostal Church currently in the building is looking for a new place to which it can relocate.

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Gilmer Arts moving forward with relocating gallery

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
A historic Dalton Street building will be the next location for a local art gallery.
God bless America!

God bless America!

21st Anniversary of 9/11

News Staff
Sunday, September 11, 2022
On this day 21 years ago, America suffered a vicious terrorist attack resulting in the loss of nearly 3,000 lives.  We will never forget.
Gilmer Chamber Information Specialist Joe Sewell shows a map of how the upcoming Georgia Apple Festival will be laid out. 

Gilmer Chamber Information Specialist Joe Sewell shows a map of how the upcoming Georgia Apple Festival will be laid out. 

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Sewell stepping back from crucial role

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
For almost two decades, Joe Sewell, the Gilmer Chamber’s information specialist, has helped get the Georgia Apple Festival set up, running smoothly and taken down each year.
Christopher Mays

Christopher Mays

County searching for missing man

Andy Ashurst - Publisher
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Gilmer County deputies and the family of Christopher Mays are asking for help in locating the missing man. “We’re trying to get his picture out there as much as possible,” said Betty McArthur, his aunt. “His wife and daughter really need to find him.
Traffic waits as a length of protective conduit, which will encase power lines being moved underground, is installed along River Street.

Traffic waits as a length of protective conduit, which will encase power lines being moved underground, is installed along River Street.

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Underground power line project headed toward possible December completion

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
A Georgia Power line relocation project that’s covered a wide swath of Gilmer County is expected to wrap by mid-December. It’s also been decided that the work, which has caused traffic delays in some areas, will be on hold for the upcoming Georgia Apple Festival.
A Beechcraft Queen airplane similar to the one in this file photo was refitted to carry 18 canisters of cocaine weighing around 50 pounds each. Authorities said in 1982 the street drug price of each canister would have brought up to $25 million. (Wikipedia Photo)

A Beechcraft Queen airplane similar to the one in this file photo was refitted to carry 18 canisters of cocaine weighing around 50 pounds each. Authorities said in 1982 the street drug price of each canister would have brought up to $25 million. (Wikipedia Photo)

‘From white liquor to white powder’

Mark Millican - Special to the Times-Courier
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
When George Johnston noticed his cows gathering around an odd, bright-blue object on the ground and giving it a sniff or two on the morning of Sept. 10, 1982, he decided to go check it out.
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Water board OKs lower fees for new customers in Roundtop project area

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
The Ellijay-Gilmer County Water and Sewerage Authority will offer reduced tap and impact fees to residents in the Roundtop and Mt. Pisgah Road areas while a water main is being extended in that part of the county. Water board members adopted the temporary fees when meeting Monday, Aug. 29.
Grading is underway at the site of a Marriott SpringHill Suites hotel on Cinema Drive in East Ellijay.

Grading is underway at the site of a Marriott SpringHill Suites hotel on Cinema Drive in East Ellijay.

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Hotel height issues heard by East Ellijay council

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
A Marriott hotel in the early construction phases in East Ellijay is, at its current design, too tall to meet the city’s building height requirements. The East Ellijay City Council and Mayor Mack West discussed that issue and heard input from the city’s engineer at a council meeting last Tuesday.